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Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.

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It has ports on the side for inserting SmartMedia, CompactFlash,
IBM Microdrive, SD, or Sony Memory Stick digital "film" and
has a color LCD panel which displays your photos (as a digital
camera does) so that you can select pictures to print easily. This
way one can use the device as a digital photo lab without
PC.

It has a USB port on its front side to directly connect a digital
camera (HP only).

To get all functionality of this printer working under Linux,
especially also the non-printing features, like scanning, printer
status, maintenance, and photo download from memory cards, use the
HPLIP
driver package from HP.

When used with HP's HPLIP driver, this printer
auto-detects the paper type and ink cartridge type and does
appropriate dithering and colour adjustment internally, controlled
by the hardware. So even when Ghostscript with the
HPLIP driver only renders the image with 300 or 600
dpi, the higher resolutions are used for the internal
dithering. So if you insert photo paper, the printer will print in
photo quality, no paper type choice in the driver's options
is needed. There is also a special high resolution mode where the
image is rendered in 1200 dpi and interpolated to 4800x1200 dpi by
the hardware, without paper detection, intended for photo paper
only.

This printer supports an optional duplex unit.

The key focus of the printer is to address the competitive market with regards to individual ink supplies.